I'd give it away for free, just to save lives.

In fact they already exist. Stuntmen use them for falling off high
buildings.

In the world trade centre bombing, practically everyone on the upper
floors would have got out, had their been a cable harness, consisting
of several hundred feet of free fall and 200 feet (the last bit
obviously) of governed decelleration.

In fact, a government could be considered criminally negligent for not
requiring these things to be installed in very building over a hundred
feet high.

Compared to the cost of the insurance, at 50 dollars a head for 5000
people? That's 250,000 dollars. Just one guy in World trade centre 2,
cost Lloyds 25 million.

There would have been literally no casualties on the non-hit floors.



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